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The Neolithic Revolution from a price-theoretic perspective
Authors:Ricardo Andrés Guzmán  Jacob Weisdorf
Institution:
  • a Universidad del Desarrollo, Facultad de Gobierno and Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Av. Plaza 700, San Carlos de Apoquindo, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
  • b Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 26, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
  • Abstract:The adoption of agriculture during the Neolithic period triggered the first demographic explosion in history. When fertility returned to its original level, agriculturalists were more numerous, more poorly nourished, and worked longer hours than their hunter-gatherer ancestors. We develop a dynamic price-theoretic model that rationalizes these events. In the short run, people are lured into agriculture by the increased labor productivity of both adults and children. In the long run, the growth in population overrides the productivity gains, and the later generations of agriculturalists end up being worse-off than the hunter-gatherers. Counter-intuitively, the increase in the labor productivity of children causes the long-run reduction in welfare. In the long run, the increase in adult labor productivity only contributes to population growth.
    Keywords:N3  J2  O1
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